Alamut-e Sharqi District ( fa, بخش الموت شرقی), meaning "East Alamut District", formerly Rudbar-e Alamut District, is a district (

bakhsh A ( fa, بخش, also romanized as ) is a third-level administrative division of Iran. While sometimes translated as "county," it is more accurately translated as "district," similar to a township in the United States or a district of En ...

) in

Qazvin County Qazvin County ( fa, شهرستان قزوین) is located in Qazvin province, Iran. The capital of the county is Qazvin. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 530,961, in 142,781 households. Retrieved 10 November 2022 At the 2016 censu ...

, Qazvin Province,

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. At the 2006 census, its population was 12,519, in 4,128 families. The District has one city:

Moallem Kalayeh Moallem Kalayeh ( fa, معلم كلايه, also Romanized as Mo’allem Kalāyeh and Mo‘allem Kalāyeh) is a city and capital of Alamut-e Sharqi District, in Qazvin County, Qazvin Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Repub ...

. The District has three

rural district Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the Ad ...

s (''dehestan''):

Alamut-e Bala Rural District Alamut-e Bala Rural District ( fa, دهستان الموت بالا) is a rural district (''dehestan'') in Rudbar-e Alamut District, Qazvin County, Qazvin Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 4,398, in 1,485 families. The rural ...

, Alamut-e Pain Rural District, and

Moallem Kalayeh Rural District Moallem Kalayeh Rural District ( fa, دهستان معلم كلايه) is a rural district (''dehestan'') in Rudbar-e Alamut District, Qazvin County, Qazvin Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also ...

. The majority of people in the district are Tats who speak a dialect of the Tati language.A minority of

Azerbaijani people Azerbaijanis (; az, Azərbaycanlılar, ), Azeris ( az, Azərilər, ), or Azerbaijani Turks ( az, Azərbaycan Türkləri, ) are a Turkic people living mainly in northwestern Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan. They are the second-most numer ...

also live in this part

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Districts of Qazvin Province Qazvin County {{QazvinCounty-geo-stub

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